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Weather sounds app for mobiles

Weather sounds app for mobiles. MA in UXD, Kingston University Experience Design 1, Tutor: Fleeta Chew. Goals. To check the current weather and weather forecasts enabling to play weather sounds Alarm clock functionality which wakes you up with weather sounds. Weather Sounds creation.

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Weather sounds app for mobiles

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  1. Weather sounds app for mobiles MA in UXD, Kingston University Experience Design 1, Tutor: Fleeta Chew

  2. Goals • To check the current weather and weather forecasts enabling to play weather sounds • Alarm clock functionality which wakes you up with weather sounds

  3. Weather Sounds creation Five main categories of sounds were identified to describe the weather on a given day. - + Cloudy/Sunny Humidity Rain Wind speed Temperature

  4. Weather Sounds creation (cont)

  5. Sounds back end Instructions to listen to the range of sounds based on the parameters selected: Download and unzip folder called “backend-weather-application” Open"index.html" in google Chrome only, as this is not cross browser compatible yet and was developed in chrome. Set the sliders to your desired weather state Press "Play" The page must be refreshed to make any changes to the musical arrangement The back end of the application which controls the sounds was developed using JQuery.

  6. User Testing A small number of people have been blind tested to see whether they identified with the sounds been played. Below are some of the comments: I like the idea although I find the sounds too abstract to identify with a type of weather Interesting app, I can see it could benefit the visually impaired. This sample of user testing identified that if we were to introduce this application to the market place further testing with potential users will have to be conducted. Some sounds are too similar.

  7. Prototypes The alarm is set to go off at 7.00 am in this instance. The alarm is set to go off at 7.00 am in this instance. The alarm goes off playing the weather sound

  8. Prototypes (cont) When checking the weather you can listen to the weather sound.

  9. Tools Development Tools • JQuery/CSS/HTML • Illustrator • GarageBand – Music software (http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/) • Metronome Online - - http://www.metronomeonline.com • Beats per minute – Tempo calculator - http://web.forret.com/tools/bpm_tempo.asp?bpm=80&beat=4&base=4

  10. About us • Mari Barredo – mari.barredo@gmail.com • James Maclean- james.maclean@jqim.co.uk • Mindlelle - mindlelle@gmail.com • Valentine Proietti - valproietti@gmail.com Visit our Tumblr blog which documents the design process followed for this project. http://sound-project.tumblr.com/

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